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> [Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/long-hours-trail-in-their-purple-and-long-years-are-lost-in-just-this/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

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## More by Hilda Doolittle

> [“Sheltered Garden" I have had enough. I gasp for breath. Every way ends, every road, every foot-path leads at last to the hill-crest-- then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/sheltered-garden-i-have-had-enough-i-gasp-for-breath-every-way-ends/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/that-way-of-inspiration-is-always-open-and-open-to-everyone-it-acts/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/could-beauty-be-beaten-out-o-youth-the-cities-have-sent-to-strike-at/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/the-christos-image-is-most-difficult-to-disentangle-from-its-art/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [When you would think, "what was the use of it," you'll remember something you can't grasp and you'll wonder what it was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/when-you-would-think-what-was-the-use-of-it-you-ll-remember-something/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [The quivering of Psyche's butterflies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/the-quivering-of-psyche-s-butterflies/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/thoth-hermes-the-stylus-the-palette-the-pen-the-quill-endure-though/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/my-eye-balls-are-glass-my-limbs-marble-my-face-fixed-in-its-marble/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [The things I have are nameless, old and true; they may not be named; few may live and know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/the-things-i-have-are-nameless-old-and-true-they-may-not-be-named-few/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [Soft are the hands of Love, but what soft hands clutched at the thorny ground, scratched like a small white ferret or foraging whippet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/soft-are-the-hands-of-love-but-what-soft-hands-clutched-at-the-thorny/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/the-elixir-of-life-the-philosopher-s-stone-is-yours-if-you-surrender/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/until-it-seems-the-whole-city-will-be-covered-with-gold-pollen-shaken/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [Alas, day, you brought light, You trailed splendour You showed us god: I salute you, most precious one, But I go to a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/alas-day-you-brought-light-you-trailed-splendour-you-showed-us-god-i/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/let-love-step-down-open-the-clasped-hands-forfeit-the-thorny-crown/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

> [(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilda-doolittle/those-women-whom-the-distaff-no-longer-claims-nor-spun-cloth-driven/)

[Hilda Doolittle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilda-doolittle/)

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